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By Chaucer Auctions
Nov 6, 2024
Unit 1, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6PQ
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LOT 136:

Nineteen large DM Medal Special Signed Covers. The unbelievably rare set of 19 special ...

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Auction took place on Nov 6, 2024 at Chaucer Auctions
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Nineteen large DM Medal Special Signed Covers . The unbelievably rare set of 19 special signed large RAF Museum Awards Series Covers and original black Album with slip case. This series of nineteen flown covers Special signed covers, a full run of covers from Air Force Cross to Knights Cross illustrates the principal honours, decorations and campaign medals which have been awarded to members of the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Regiment, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm. Each cover which measures a large 32cm x 23cm carries the signatures of seven airmen, whose gallantry or leadership in the service of their country, has been recognised by the award shown.   The collection comes housed in a luxury album £80 to buy new, and all the covers are laid out in protective sleeves with the inlay cards and signatories photographs shown opposite. This stunning collection bears some of the rarest World War Two valuable autographs you could hope to own, including MRAF Sir Arthur Harris RRP £30, Dambuster David Shannon RRP £20, Dambuster Mickey Martin RRP £30, Dambuster Bill Townsend RRP £40, Dambuster Tony Burcher RRP £100, Dambuster Len Sumpter RRP £20, BOB Don Kingaby £20, BOB Herbert Hallows £30, 7 Luftwaffe Knight Cross Winners RRP £70, Sqn Ldr Neville Duke, Leonard Trent VC, Bill Reid VC, Leonard Cheshire VC, Rod Learoyd VC, AVM Don Bennett, AVM Johnnie Johnson, Group Captain John Cunningham, Eric Winkle Brown, Peter Twiss, ACM Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, Group Captain Dennis David, Bob Stanford-Tuck, Group Captain James Tait, Hamish Mahaddie, Oliver Philpot, Denis Crowley-Milling, James Ginger Lacey, Bobby Oxspring, Laddie Lucas, Luftwaffe aces Major Erwin Fischer KC  RRP £20 , Hauptmann Wilhelm Johnen KC  RRP £20 , Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope KC  RRP £20 , General Friedrich Kless KC  RRP £20 , Major Friedrich Lang  RRP £20 , Oberleutnant Gunther Seegar KC  RRP £20 , Major Gerhard Schopfel  RRP £20 and so many more. Full list of covers and autographs.  DM1 Award of the Air Force Cross  signed by Sir Dermot Boyle, FH Bugge, AC Clouston printed, Grp Capt Emmerson, Sir Arthur Harris, and Bill Randle and ACM Keith Williamson.  DM2 Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross  signed by Sir Robin Hooper, Desmond Hughes, HC Rigby, Flt Lt Jimmy Edwards, Grp Capt. Ken Batchelor, Neville Duke and Ivor Broom . DM3 Award of the Victoria Cross  signed by Leonard Cheshire, John Cruickshank, Norman Jackson, Rod Learoyd, Bill Reid, Leonard Trent and Freddie West VC  DM4 Award of the Distinguished Service Order  signed by Don Bennett, Harry Burton, John Cunningham, Denys Gillam, Johnnie Johnson, Dave Shannon and Hugh Verity.  DM5 Award of the Distinguished Service Cross  signed by Eric Brown, Fred Russell printed, Peter Twiss, David Morgan, Derry Kearns, Ian Robertson and Sir William Garthwaite.  DM6 Award of the Military Medal  signed by Edward Cerely, John McFarlane, Elspeth Green, William Magrath, Roy Marlow, Harry Simister and Wally Simpson.  DM7 Award of the OBE  signed by Sir Harry Broadhurst, Paul Holder, Earl of Selkirk, Colin Scragg, Denis Smallwood, Sir Geoffrey Tuttle and Sir John Whitley.  DM8 Award of the Order of the Bath  signed by Lord Cameron, William Dickson, Christopher Foxley-Norris, Lewis Hodges, Micky Martin, Denis Spotswood and Augustus Walker.  DM9 Award of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal  signed by D Allen, Jack Bettany, George Dove, DT Jones, JW Norris, Bill Townsend and J G Wheeler.  DM10 Award of the 1939-45 Star Battle of  Britain signed by Ben Bennions, Dennis David, Bob Doe, H Hallowes, Pat Hancock, Bob Stanford-Tuck and George Unwin.  DM11 Award of the Aircrew Europe Star  signed by Michael Beetham, Harold Bird-Wilson, Wallace Kyle, John Lapsey, Hamish Mahaddie, Fred Rosier and James Tait . DM12 Award of the Military Cross to Airmen  signed by Brian Coote, Peter Gosse, Arthur Hall, A E Milton, Norman Page, Oliver Philpot and Sir Robert Thompson.  DM13 Award of the Air Efficiency Award  signed by Denis Crowley-Milling, HG Davis, Frank Dodd, Sandy Johnstone, Don Kingaby, HM Stephen and Peter Vanneck.  DM14 Award of the Distinguished Flying Medal  signed by Tony Burcher, E Cummings, Bill Howarth, James Lacey, DA Macdonald, AG Mitchell and Len Sumpter.  DM15 Award of the George Medal to Airmen  signed by R Bullen, Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, John Gray, Michael Lakey, James McCarthy, D Oliver and J Reeson.  DM16 Mentioned in Despatches  signed. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Constantine, Air Vice Marshal F.S.Hazlewood, Air Chief Marshal Sir A W Heward ,   Air Vice Marshal I D Napier Lawson, Gp Capt R W Oxspring, Air Chief Marshal Sir A Steedman . DM17 Award of the Air Force Medal  Personally Signed by Pilot Flt Lt S P Smirthwaite and  7  holders of Air Force Medal J.W.Allen, T.Barraclough, P.Crouch, J.Donnelly, R.T.Emeny, J.Emmerson, R.Lockhart . RAF (DM) 18 Knights Cross Of The Iron Cross  Multi Signed Large Cover. Signed by :: Major Erwin Fischer KC, Hauptmann Wilhelm Johnen KC, Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope KC, General Friedrich Kless KC, Major Friedrich Lang, Oberleutnant Gunther Seegar KC, Major Gerhard Schopfel.  DM19 The Defence Medal.  Signed by AVM Sir Alan Boxer, ACM Sir Brian Burnett, Fl Lt T Franks, ACM Sir Peter Le Cheminant, AM Sir Peter Wykeham, AVM Sir Laurence Sinclair, WC ‘Laddie’ Lucas.